The bill, which had been in preparation for months, was formally presented in a Cabinet meeting just days after a French police official was killed inside her police station in what authorities are investigating as a terrorist attack.
In a news conference, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the text will strengthen French intelligence services’ power to watch people’s online activities.
Extremists “are using less and less phone lines and more and more internet connections,” he said.
One measure will extend the use by French intelligence services of algorithms to track down extremists online, a method already being trialed since 2015 to monitor messaging apps.
Darmanin said that using algorithms will notably enable intelligence services to spot someone who has accessed extremist websites several times."
Source: France24, 28 April 2021